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Earth is home to so many impressive places, some are hard to believe until you see them with your own eyes…
We travel east to the country of Romania to visit one of the most surreal hidden gems on the planet.
We descend into tunnels that bore through pure salt, deposited by the evaporation of the sea that covered the region millions of years ago. In the depths of Transylvania, the other worldly chambers of Salina Turda hide.
Here, inside one of the oldest salt mines in the world, a sci-fi themed park lights up the enormous caverns.
Full sized attractions are surrounded by natural psychedelic patterns in what feels like a frozen wonderland from outer-space.
Within its deepest chamber, you can set sail on an inky black salt lake and row around a salt island, hundreds of years in the making, under a sky of sparkling stalactites.
Join us as we discover everything this unique and historic mine has to offer almost a thousand years after it was first exploited.
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Mining first started here in 1075 and continued for 859 years, up until 1932.
It was opened to the public as a salt mine museum in 1992 but wasn’t renovated into a theme park until 2010.
The bell shaped chamber which is home to the lake is the original mine, reaching 90 metres into the earth. The lake reaches 8 metres depth in areas, surrounding the salt island which is like a huge stalagmite that continues to grow in size today.
The conical chamber came second, which is now home to the attractions, reaching down 112 metres.
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